A Public Hearing on the following proposed Ordinance(s) will be held before the Ordinance Committee on Thursday, August 15, 2024 on or about 6:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, City Hall, 869 Park Avenue, City Hall, Cranston, R.I. pursuant to Section 3.12 of the Cranston City Charter, for the purpose of considering the following items listed on the agenda. Remote participation is also available by using the logon information provided below as posted on the City’s website at www.cranstonri.gov and Secretary of State’s website at www.sos.ri.gov.
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/95678099840?pwd=E0e0uqwx7WweAzEaWzxLqDJgab3VFM.1
Passcode: 783583
Or One tap mobile :
+16465588656,,95678099840# US (New York)
+16469313860,,95678099840# US
Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
+1 646 931 3860 US
+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)
+1 305 224 1968 US
+1 309 205 3325 US
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 669 444 9171 US
+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)
+1 689 278 1000 US
+1 719 359 4580 US
+1 253 205 0468 US
+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
+1 360 209 5623 US
+1 386 347 5053 US
+1 507 473 4847 US
+1 564 217 2000 US
Webinar ID: 956 7809 9840
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/afMOW3Vbk
Complete copies of proposed ordinance(s) are available for public review at the City Clerk’s Office, and the City’s website cranstonri.com under calendar by clicking on the meeting date.
“Individuals requesting interpreter services for the deaf or hard of hearing must notify the City Clerk’s Office at 461-1000 ext. 3197 seventy-two (72) hours in advance of the hearing date.”
Lammis J. Vargas
Ordinance Committee Chair
Tracy A. Nelson, CMC
City Clerk
PROPOSED ORDINANCE 07-24-02 IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 10.40 OF THE CITY OF CRANSTON, 2005, ENTITLED ‘Miscellaneous Traffic Regulations’
(Panhandling Ordinance Repeal)
It is Ordained by the City of Cranston City Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 10.40.070 is hereby amended by adding the following:
(10.40.070 Prohibition against distribution to and receiving from occupants of vehicles.
A. Definitions. For the purposes of this section:
"Roadway" means the portion of a public street, road, or highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel and extending from one curb or edge of pavement to the opposite curb or edge of pavement, including lanes commonly used for parking and including center medians and lane dividers*; provided, however, that the term roadway shall not include any street, road, or highway: 1) having a paved surface width no greater than thirty (30) feet as measured from one edge of pavement to the opposite edge of pavement (which measurement shall not include sidewalk areas); 2) is an undivided roadway on which traffic flow is restricted to a single lane of travel in opposing directions or a single lane of travel in one direction; and 3) upon which the legal speed limit does not exceed twenty-five (25) miles per hour.
"Sidewalk" means that portion of a public right-of-way between the curb lines or the lateral lines of pavement on the roadway and the adjacent property lines, intended for use by pedestrians.
B. No person shall stand in or enter upon a roadway for the purpose of distributing anything to the occupant of any vehicle or for the purpose of receiving anything from the occupant of any vehicle.
C. The distribution or receiving described in subsection B is permissible to an occupant of a non-moving vehicle on the roadway adjacent to the sidewalk and if the person doing so is on the adjacent sidewalk.
D. Nothing contained herein is intended to prohibit distribution by any person on a sidewalk, to another person on the sidewalk, or by and among persons in a city parking lot or city park.)
Section 2. This ordinance shall take effect upon its final adoption.
Sponsored by Councilman John Donegan
PROPOSED ORDINANCE 7-24-03 IN AMENDMENT OF TITLE 9, CHAPTER 4 TO THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CRANSTON, 2005, ENTITLED
“OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC PEACE AND DECENCY”
It is Ordained by the City Council of the City of Cranston as follows:
Section 1. Title 9, “PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE”, Chapter 4, “OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC PEACE AND DECENCY” of the Code of the City of Cranston is hereby amended to ADD Chapter 9.04.062 as follows:
9.04.070 – Camping on City owned property.
No person shall set up any type of shelter, either permanent or temporary, for the purposes of housing within the limits of the City on any City owned property. Said shelter shall be defined as any type of material erected for the purpose of protecting an individual from the natural elements, whether or not said structure is erected in a temporary or permanent manner. Every person violating any of the provisions of this section shall pay a fine of fifty ($50) dollars and shall immediately be issued a “No Trespass” order from said property. Additionally, any structure erected shall immediately be removed by the individual. Should the structure remain on City property for a period of more than twenty-four (24) hours after the individual is issued a notice of fine and trespass order, said property shall be removed by the Department of Public Works (DPW) and shall be discarded.
Authority to issue any fine and no trespass orders under this ordinance shall be in the jurisdiction of the Cranston Police Department (CPD) and its sworn members.
Section 2. This Ordinance shall take effect upon its final adoption.
Sponsored by Mayor Kenneth J. Hopkins
Comments
No comments on this item Please log in to comment by clicking here